Nonprofits are seen as organizations focused on providing services and making a positive impact on the community or for a segment of the population. It is hard to think someone would steal from and disrupt a nonprofit’s altruistic mission. But cyber criminals do.

Nearly half of state and local government entities are the targets of cybercrime and fraud on a daily basis. Up to a third are unaware of how frequently they are attacked. This was all confirmed in a recent study conducted by the International City/County Management Association (ICMA) and the University of Maryland Baltimore College (UMBC).

Information Technology (IT) is like the “tracks” on which a company or organization runs. If those tracks become misaligned, a company’s operations can be dramatically disrupted, similar to a train having to stop in its tracks.

“Shadow IT” is technology being used in relation to company operations which was never formally vetted, tested, integrated or approved by the business or mission leads within the organization.